I couldn’t afford to learn it,” said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. “I only took the regular course.” “What was that?” inquired Alice. “Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic – Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

— Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll Quotes

This young lady loves you with an H,” the King said, introducing Alice in the hope of turning off the Messenger’s attention from himself – but it was no use – the Anglo-Saxon attitudes only got more extraordinary every moment, while the great eyes rolled wildly from side to side.

— Lewis Carroll

All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, “You’re travelling the wrong way,” and shut up the window and went away.

— Lewis Carroll

So I wasn’t dreaming, after all,” she said to herself, “unless – unless we’re all part of the same dream. Only I do hope it’s my dream, and not the Red King’s! I don’t like belonging to another person’s dream,” she went on in a rather complaining tone: “I’ve a great mind to go and wake him, and see what happens!

— Lewis Carroll

Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could.

— Lewis Carroll

Every adventure requires a first step.

— Lewis Carroll

Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! You ought, Dinah, you know you ought!

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If it had grown up, ‘she said to herself, ‘it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.’ And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, ’if one only know the right way to change them -.

— Lewis Carroll

In that direction... lives a Hatter, and in that direction... lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.

— Lewis Carroll

I kept his letters in a sandalwood box and covered them every day with the flowers I gathered in the garden.

— Lewis Carroll

I couldn’t afford to learn it,” said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. “I only took the regular course.” “What was that?” inquired Alice. “Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic – Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

— Lewis Carroll

And the Gryphon added “Come, let’s hear some of your adventures.” “I could tell you my adventures – beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

— Lewis Carroll

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife – what’s the answer to that?” “I suppose – ” Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. “Bread-and-butter, of course. Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?

— Lewis Carroll

She thought of herself, “I wish the creatures wouldn’t be so easily offended!

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He was overwhelmed by the beauty of the world. Beside that nothing seemed to matter.

— Lewis Carroll

Really, now you ask me,” said Alice, very much confused, “I don’t think – – ” “Then you shouldn’t talk,” said the Hatter.

— Lewis Carroll

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

— Lewis Carroll

Come, my head’s free at last!” said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.

— Lewis Carroll

Yes, but then I came and rescued her!” the White Knight replied.

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Don’t interrupt. I’m going to tell you all your flaws.

— Lewis Carroll

Hold your tongue, Ma!′ said the young crab, a little snappishly. ‘You’re enough to try the patience of an oyster!

— Lewis Carroll
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